Caution is the lower story of prudence.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.

Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.